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Causes of Am. Rev
Causes of the American Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| War ending in 1763 with the Treaty of Paris that gave Britain land in North America as far west as the Mississippi River, and put Britain in DEBT | French and Indian War |
| Victor of the French and Indian War | Britain defeated France/Natives |
| British king during the American Revolution | George III |
| British action to avoid increasing tensions with the Natives and reduce cost of defending the colonists | Royal Proclamation of 1763 |
| how the Royal Proclamation tried to reduce tension with the natives, although many colonists disregarded the law because Britain couldn't enforce it | by forbidding settlers to move WEST, past the Appalachian Mountains |
| Parliament law of 1765 that taxed anything printed on paper (newspaper, playing cards, letters) in order to raise money to pay off debt | Stamp Act |
| Group started by Samuel Adams of Boston, to share information about protests with other colonies | Committees of Correspondence |
| protest method where people refuse to buy products from England in order to hurt the economy and force a change in laws | boycott |
| what the colonists did that caused Britain to repeal (remove) the Stamp Act | boycott British goods |
| After the repeal of the Stamp Act, King George III approved THIS act, that bascially said Parliament had full authority over the colonies | Declaratory Act |
| Act of Parliament that forced colonists to house British soldiers (known as Red Coats) in thier homes and feed them; Red Coats were used as tax collectors and colonists did not like having them there | Quartering Act |
| Blank search warrants that Red Coats used to search colonial homes and ships, looking for smuggled goods. If the British even suspected items were smuggled, they were taken | writs of assistance |
| A deadly riot in which 5 colonists were killed in Boston in 1770 after an angry mob gathered around British soldiers/tax collectors | Boston Massacre |
| one sided information meant to influence one's opinion, such as Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre that increased colonists' hatred towards the British | propaganda |
| Future president who defended the British soldiers in court after the Boston Massacre, arguing everyone had the right to a fair trial | John Adams |
| Act that gave a British Tea Company sole rights to sell tea in the colonies, so that import taxes could be made by Britain | Tea Act |
| Protest group led by Samuel Adams that illegally boarded ships with tea in Boston Harbor, and dumped the cargo in what became known as the Boston Tea Party | Sons of Liberty |
| Britain's punishment to Boston for the Tea Party, where Boston was not allowed to trade, not allowed to have town meetings... | Coercive Acts |
| What the colonists called the Coercive Acts because they felt like the laws were so BAD | Intolerable Acts |
| Taxes on tea, glass, paper, ect that the Daughter's of Liberty protested by making their own cloth | Townshend Acts |
| Series of laws that controlled the trade of the colonies, making the colonies only trade with Britain | Navigation Acts |
| Act of 1733 that taxed sugar from French territory, that led to colonial smuggling | Sugar Act |
| Defendants accused to smuggling were considered guilty until... | proven innocent |
| to remove (such as to remove a law) | repeal |
| why the colonists developed their own representative governments, had self government.... | Britain was too far away to keep tight control (salutary neglect) |
| Massachusetts merchant who was behind colonial protests of British taxation policies | Samuel Adams |
| English philosopher who argued government was a Social Contract, and people had the right to rebel if the government didn't protect life, liberty and property | John Locke |
| What colonists believed was tyranny | taxation without representation |
| Virginian who famously said "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!" while convincing the House of Burgesses to join Massachusetts in its fight | Patrick Henry |
| Whose famous engraving of the Boston Massacre was used as Anti-British propaganda? | Paul Revere |
| Who wrote plays and pamphlets against the British, as well as the first written history of the time period? | Mercy Otis Warren |
| What did the First Continental Congress decide in regards to handling the growing crisis with Britain? | continue protests |
| What was the first battle of the American Revolution? | Lexington and Concord |
| What does redress mean? | to fix, to remedy |
| Who did the Second Continental Congress appoint as the head of the new Continental Army? | George Washingon |
| Who said, "I challenge the warmest advocated to reconciliation to show a single advantage that this continent can reap by being connect to Britain.....'tis time to part." | Thomas Paine in Common Sense |
| Rich landowners who feared losing their land or who thought the taxation policy was reasonable were be known as what? | Loyalists |
| Merchants around Boston, and those who resented the presence of armed soldiers would be known as what? | Patriots |
| Choosing not to obey a law (peacefully) is known as what? | civil disobedience |
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